Curvatures of the spine / by Noble Smith.

  • Smith, E. Noble (Eldred Noble), 1847-1906
Date:
1889
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Curvatures of the spine / by Noble Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    This is great work for the chest, the putting the arms over your head in this way, and the deep breathing at the same time, causing you to expand your chest to its utmost capacity —a thing, by the way, which many persons do not do once in a whole day, sometimes even in a whole month. Fig. 37. [The above directions for training young people to become strong, are applicable to all children in good health who have not already developed deformity. Some of them are very useful in the course of treatment of curvatures of the spine, but as already urged in the foregoing pages, great care and discrimination must be observed before recommending any exercises when there is much general debility, or when there is any departure from what is natural in the condition of the spine.—N. S.] THE END.